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_ BASEBALL GAMBLING | MUST STOP; BETTING ' MENACE IS GROWING ___IN BIG LEAGUES EDITOR'S NOTE.—Gambling must be stamped out of baseball, The | Feeent Tom Seaton-Casey Smith case in San Francisco, where two star were let out by the Seals on gambling charges never answered | by the players, was the first drive on the Coast to wipe out the evil. | ‘The big leagues are also infested with gamblers, kept clean, gambling must be eliminated focal club is also hot on the trail of gamblers at the parks and thy NEW YORK, M Yo develop this year ig and racing? s they co-operate actively ith ‘the authorities in pre nting such betting else- as well, the future of| Baseball is too good a game to It is too clean. It fs It is too honest. ye can stand up against the as of men who “fix” prizefighters, ‘@ sponge into his nose, who bribe a jockey to “pull” a race, ‘who will pay a tout to spread false ‘That is the kind of men who to ban fare operating in many of th on the major league circt ING ON DIAN: During the Indian series, I sat Im the “betting ring” here—back third base at the Polo Grounds. Odds were freely & on, the event, almost un the noses of the special po-* hired to prevent gam- ie mecasce Coveleskie was for Cleveland and ‘ Ruth was out of the Yao- ‘Kees’ line-up, the lindians were the favorites, with 7 to the usual odds in their favor. betting was not in small ints. | heard no sum men under $50, and the ord+ bet was In ho ypical graduates > sake brought the jargon of the book to the baseball park Pim off this guy Mogridge.” de i one. “He ain't pitched a de ent game this year.” BeWhat ove! you lay against the aia “0 give ‘ou 150 to 110." _*You'r ot eR take some of that.” piped up I got all I want dow Now no one is saying ‘there is anything wrong in | friends betting a hat or a few dollars on a game of baseball But professional betting and pro fessional bookmaking cannot con- finue very long without some desiring to get a little on the vest by “reach ing” >a ball player. There were “ery ugly rumors about the last World series. A number of ball eee, eve practically been by organized baseball, acensations: men in question have i public, but it is gen rally understood that the action against them was connected in | seme way with gambling. Of evemcreater menace to the than the smail try betters of “betting ring” buck of third, are “big speculators” who sit in pri boxes and who conduct their in comparative secrecy practically all the gambling ing on in New York city today there is the sinister figure of one ot every denizen of the underworld “his man bets in the thousands, He said often to have as’ much as $100,000 wagered upon the outcome of a pennant race. He has myster- fous influence, the source of which few people know, and possesses con- nections which lead up to the highest | circles in this country. CLUB OWNERS SENSE MENACE Under these circumstances ft might to curb gamblers where public au- thority fails, And it is only fair to #ay that the baseball owners seem to realize the gravity of the situation. Following a conference in Chicago with Garry Herrmann, former chair- man of the national commission, President Ban Johnson of the Amer- jean league, has announced that forces of one of the largest detec- tive agencies in the country would be employed to ferret out gamblers at all big league ball parks. THE NaS GAMES— And the success of the American teams depend upon the support Ameri cans give. You can beeome « “con- tributing” member of the American Olympic Commit- tee by paying $6.00, this money being used for fund to send ever our va- rious teams. We have the receipt and handsome gold button for those who will help in cause. Piper : $0009 ONLWOdS Jie mah whose name is on the tongue! be said that too much is demanded | of baseball officials in asking ther | aces ens those caught in the act of betting in the parks with immediate | arrest BY JAMES HE (Spee ial to The 27.—Is another world series scandal Are cheap gamblers, the Bolshevists of sportsdom, to ruin “baseball as they have destroyed the public's There can be only one answer to both these questions. Unless the ruling powers of baseball take hold with a firm) ad and stamp out professional betting in their ball parks, | . If baseball is to be t Klepper of the f Presi confidence in| | IN THE MAJORS Tonterday's hero—"Habe” Rath agate | © home-ran King shot his eighth home run in the upper right field Gre willing to “dope” a horse or! The Tan Caste Wittama southpaw ace of the White Sox | Home rune by (he count If four bagwere Im i1¢ dare | | ene STAR LEAGUE | ns and poolrooms. | | present plan of The Sar league | This was decided at a meeting of The Star lea junior managers | last night. The schedule in both | | clroults will be revined and published | 4 soon ax completed. Some of the| teams dropped out of the league and made this necessary. Games scheduled for Sunday wit | be Athletic bay Juniors and Georgetown Mer-| h fo! M jz | Walla field. | | | Hon@ryt get four hits out of fear trips Burleigh Grimes won his own game for | ning with Kildut? om jttes ne new schedule not gotng Into ef. | fect Juniors at Co! jumbia field clone to six year spent in a “cradle on ‘Thomas America’s cup, was back 4, Belping (he Yanks te beat Detrott the plate and helped the Red Box back © first place by beating tne Jirewns, [Pts tof five attempts 13 te 8 was pounded out of the dow Athisticn, whe wi 10 to 3 th . Perry and D obina by tripling im the The Piretes toot | jock"s trtpte and Hornsby" atngte an id the Cards to beat the Reds, 10 te # TO FINISH AS PLANNED ‘There will be no changes in the P 4 as publistred, however. until June 6 The Shamrock club and Spartan Athietic have asked for open dates for ay, which will leave the Inter ants without games. The other games on Sunday’s bit) low Mt Baker wa Rainier Valley jors at Columbia field. jombla Slickers va rs | Dark at Washington park. Madison Cavalier club iors) ya Fettx (Walla Walla | club at Walla Alki Juniors vs. Rainier Heights CUP BOATS BEING PRIMED NEW YORK, May 27.—Aftey dry land” + Lipto Shamrock IV, s challenger Bir | for| in water today. | The big green yacht was being fitted dp today by her crew for the | trial spins, which are to start in five or six days. tr’ to present plans. round, no-decision boxing bouts will! be: | | i] { to det will cost $500 and the state is to get| Resolute and Vantitie, candidates d the cup, will resume the races on June 3, tal acocrding | LOUISVILLE. —On June 15 12 come legal In Kentucky. Licenses r cent of gross receipts. REX THEATRE COMING SATURDAY JACK DEMPSEY In His Million-Dollar Picture DAREDEVIL JACK ja while BOHNE IS NO MAN FOR JOB AT SHORT There's one glaring weakness on the Seatilo ball club today, and that's the defense around second base, This has been the biggest hole in the Seattle do fonse since the start of the sea son, Sammy Bohne proved you terday beyond a doubt that as a shortstop he's a fine sieve Clyde Wares didn’t look any too good around the second sack himself. Hoe shouldn't have to play, as he has enough worries running the club, When the Seattle teun gets & good shortstop, moves Holine to third, Myrphy to first and Zam lock to second, the club should Just about be set for the season, Outside of this outstanding fact, nothing much could be gimaned from the showing of the Seattle clab yeuterday in the fire kame of the series with the Salt Lake Bees, which the Bees took into camp by a 4 to | count. The Seattle boys were held up on route by = landslide, and arrived Just in time to hop out to the park and start playing. The game didn't get onder way antil 420, and after three days on the train the locals can't be judged by yesterday's showing. orday, and Ute fellow collected a triple, whic was a peach. One or two pleasing facts stood out the leading one of | * eee wan Merlin Kopp’s hitting. The h He looked better at the plate than he haw this year, be cause he was taking bis cut at the ball. Cart Zamlock er, and “Brick” der, didn’t F themselves well tn the field lock is a big fell terrific mwing at the apple has speed. Harry Woltere also hit the ball jon the beak, collecting three aafe bin- jelea and reaching first on an error jin four trips to the platter the new firwt sack ldred, the new cen much with the Ww yeoterday, altho they handled Zam who takes al yaiae Eldred Jack Adams, the first string catch er, who was out of the game mont of burn knee when the }eclub was home last time, was batk the time with n the game again and bolstered up the team. After we get mid shortstop, who needed more than a real ocean nests water, it will be fust te progressive a question of time until we start to win some ball games, or we lose our guess. ‘The defense is the only real week | have ook. We Za neas of the club now. hitters in Kenworthy, Wolters, Kopp, Eldred, Murphy and Bohne and plenty of speed Kopp, Eldred, Murphy right among base thieta Give the gang plenty of time to! watch le time | san start playing together and em go. If, after @ reason: with rakiand any of the players show that they| can't deliver, changes will have to **¢ the men to be made of cours, bat must be gtven plenty of time make good before any more changes are made. A team that con stantly making changes can't ex pect to develop any degree of (ram work, SALT LAKE CLUB HITS HARD Salt Lake has » hard -hitiing elub and should make the rest of the clubs step right along before the pennant race is decided this erason, Maggert, Johnson, Krug, Sheely, Mulligan and By- ler hit the ball hardest for the Salts yesterday. Big Bill Ram- ler, the hardest hitter of the lot, didn't come thru with any safo bingles in yeuterday’s struggle, but what he can do with the willow is well enough known and pitching to him in a pinch is easy just like jumping off the top of the Smith building. BEES HAVE PITCHERS THIS YEAR The B the only thing | are getting a pretty | good brand of pitching this season | That's about | Kept the Salt Lake club out of first that |r place iat year. Nick Cullop, the big lefthander who pitched yesterday, an experienced worker in a nice game and showed ple: stuff out there on the mound. in trying a comeback is He turned He was rated as one of the best southpawa in the and is With Leverenz, Stroud Bromley, Thurston and Rees © a pretty moundmen. Baum | PLENTY OF BASEBALL THIS WEEK There will be plenty of base ball here this week. The Bees and Siwashes will play a double bill on Saturday and another double affair on Monday, which is officially Decoration day. Both double bills will start at 1:30, The Seattle club Is pretty well good staff of Sook, jen al | |PACIFIG INTERNATIONAL | accepted at AT LOS ANGRLES— ¥ rr Seattle Needs Steady Keystone Pair— Star Tennis I wish to enter The Star Woodland Park Tennts tournament. I am More contract jumping. teams that later won pennanta, an amateur tennis player tm good standing. I wish to enter the “Bunny” Fabrique, who played is managing the Grand events marked with crosm TRAINING shortstop for the Seattle club team in the Central league. The Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed Name Addrens to mix things from the starting bell.| yes, |Feoetver, joined the squad. occacesecccer semmmrervacccerecsesenecesssccecsoconoeses + Lux is being picked aa the favorite | Pen t t the Southe rut ith Me cocsnitiinioeeduanendkdecipenedamintosadccscssbenccess five Uae UNS BoUthemner, Dut With 26 Joo Harris, the haré-nftting firet | Tee Meaftows, the Phfladetphia Carthy packing @ K. O. wallop in| wacker of the Cleveland Indians last|Ditcher, who wears giasess while ‘ame partners tn doubles eventa Entries close June 2 and will be | both mitts, there ain't much an ani |™™ rs “ - WE LOSE ANOTHER PAIR Seattle's pair of ball teams lost league club dropped the first struggle with Salt Lake by a 4 to 1 count, With the score 2 to 1 Salt filled the bases but Murphy grounded to the pitcher for the third out and Salt Lake added two more in well known ice. It took Spokane longer (han usual to beat the Seattle P. C. I. team BAS the locals losing owt, 4 KU PO A . Bl ccc nn-convoePi Rat nm AT GAN FRANCISCO ry AT PORTLAND— ante. : oo Maia Kents and Kom and Koehler, Tattertnw tterine and Devormer Aridge and Baseler. Pertica, Keau LEAGUE Won Pet oftman; Creept AMERICAN LEAGUE w Lowt aah me le ne Philed at Prtabore | game a couple of years ago when he |” | played with the New York Yankees, j but he dropped out of the game for now coming back Reiger, her Be “ 268 Washington 12 New York Cleveland 9. Detroit wartond LRA Won, ’ ass ae a 16 fixed for pitchers right now and the double bills won't play the havoc with the hurting staff that such events will create later in the season when the staff is pruned down, NEW YORK—Ban Johnsen and |John Heydler are reported to have |agreed on $20,000 as a yearly salary | to be offesed Big Bill Edwards to | head the national commission. And the contract would be for F three — “The Great Thing About Real Tobacco” says the Good Judge is that it tastes so good, and a little chew lasts so much longer than the old kind, The good, rich tobacco taste stays right with this class of tobacco. That’s why it costs you less to chew it. tell you that. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will Put up in two styles RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacce gh aR ay PT Carp SWATTIGN STAR OUD oo. ete ene ten oo een nen ene ees cece means The Star or at the tennis department at Piper & Taft's i i LUX LAYS OFF HEAVY Varovnobincdeacshie4 Entry Blank | scribes have named the team the i Joshers in honor of their mam i ner. i for = while last year, finishing the season with the Low Angeles axeregation, bas jumped the Kansas City club in the Ameri- can amociation, to the Steel Morrie Lark, Cosat welter cham pion, lays off of heavy tratning today for hin bout with Johnny McCarthy whieh will headline the nd league in the Kast, Johnson an show at ahd woe | Kvans, a pair of pitchers also This tn Morrie’s firnt start tn some! quit the team, No legal action time, and he should be in fine fottle| has been takem by the club as Nig Clarke, the veteran Cleveland | catcher who tried to come back with the Pittsburg Pirates this spring, has been released by the Bucaneers | wince Charley Schmidt, the regular ade ops Liberty tomorrow playing the national pastime, had « ear, who jum, the team to join age lb Jotn | miraculous escape in a recent game pened yb Ay oe Be the Franklin Independents in Penn- Harold Jones and Bobby Harper |"!¥Ania, may rejoin the Indians. | when © foul Ty, causes tao SO |wil renew feativrtins in the semi |D0C Johnston bas-been playing bril- | Dat and lroke le Kiss, nee windup, Jones is boxing at a atendy| ant ball for the Indians, but has pr yin geen to pod his eyesight. gait. ‘This fe Harper's first start |been laid up considerably this season | HOS AUCKT Nik Ok One Oe Oe best tince he beat Joe Mandot, at the|>Y ® charley horse and Prexy Dunn | (0 0 Sit) onal league, Asdna, pets Hane ane jof the Indians is understood to be | Ditchers inghe Natio Morgan Jonas the Clever Tacoma |making strenuoys efforts to bring featherweight, takes on young Sam | aris back in the fold. | Langford in on ae tid while Danny colored bantam, mal a8 & wore thing, MoCarthy ar Colgury wine tenting te SO | Buck Weaver, Chicago White Sox tangles with Eli infielder, is playing the game of his Caston, the newnboy battler, who is/ lite for the American league cham making his first start here in « long | pions. After starting the season « time. |third he has been shifted to short | Two preliminaries will complete stop since Swede Risberg was hurt | (pe card land he has been playing the same -| brand of ball that ranked him as one of the best third mackers in the country last year. Josh Devore, considered one of the luckiest players in the big Fred Merkle, veteran first sacker, has been suspended by Manager Mitchell of the Chicago Cubs for talking back on the bench. Turner Barber, an outfielder, has been tak- tad very good care of the first base joo. another pair of games. The Const Lake leading in the eighth Srattic the ninth putting the gamo on the + ricn L EATTLE to 3, tn 10 innings. -— Chief Bender, the famous Indian hurler of the Philadelphia Athletios, leagues « few years ago when he | in managing the New Haven team in | was traded a couple of times in |the Eastern league. His team is in ie > middle of the seacon to second place at the present writing. 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